About The Last Hour

About The Last Hour

All utmust praise and gratitude are due to Allah the All-compassionate. Neither the praise of any servant enrich's Him, nor his ingratitude decrease His dominion. Thank is due to Him, neither the obedience of a servant benefits Him, nor his sins harm Him. And may His peace and blessings be upon His chosen and Noble prophet (S.A.W), his household, and those who follows their right path till the Day of reckoning.
 My respeted brothers and sisters in Islam! I enjoin upon you and myself to fear Allah the exalted and Omnipotent, and to be careful about the world for it's uncertain. It is rather a house of trial and examination. It kingdom, power and authority never unperish. It nights and days about one deprecate and deminish. Respected faces full of peace! we should all ponder and speculate in the meaning of the following verse, for verily speculation leads to knowing Allah, and knowing Allah leads to loving Him, and loving Him always leads to a life of harmony and tranquility in both here and Here-after. The saying of Allah;

The Hour draws near, and the moon has split.
The cleaving of the moon, Allah informs about the approach of the last Hour and the imminent end and demise of the world. This is also expantiated by the first verse of surah Al-anbiya'i ; ( Draws near for mankind  their reckoning, while they turn away in heedlessness (21:1).
Al-hafiez Abubakr Al-bazzar recorded that Anas said that one day, when the sun was about to set, the Messenger of Allah gave a speech to his companions,, saying, (By He, in Whose Hand is my soul!Not much of this world is left compare to what has already pass of it, exept as much as what is left in this day of yours compare to what has already pass of it. Anas said, we could only see small part of the setting sun at the time. Then this implies  that we are more closer to the last Hour than the previous generation because, Prophet said this for the past over 1,436 yrs. People nowadays are skeptical about Qiyaamah. Wallahi....!  as you wait for this friday to come and here are we in it, it would certainly be a Day when we shall all stand before Allah to explain our deeds.
                  The amazing and wonderful phenomenon of the splitting of the Moon, which took place at Minā five years before the Hijrah, caused by a gesture of God's Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, was a manifest miracle of his, and a clear sign of the truth that the Resurrection, of which the Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, was giving the news, would take place. The great sphere of the moon had split into two distinct parts in front of the very eyes of the people present. The two parts had separated and receded so far apart from one another that, to the onlookers, one part had appeared on one side of the mountain and the other on the other side of it (one on Safa and the other on Marwah). Then, in an instant, the two had rejoined. The unbelievers described it as a magical illusion and persisted in their denial. Such people will not believe as a result of admonition, nor learn lessons from history, nor affirm faith even after witnessing manifest signs with their eyes. I pray Allah to refuge us from being among those who doesn't learn from the singns of Allah. So, this has been among the miracles of the prophet (P.B.U.H) and signs of the Last Hour.
                    It is also among the signs, dressing in-decencely by women. Allah said ( ...and do not Tabarruj yourself like Tabarruj of times of ignorance). Muqattil bin hayyan said with regard to this verse; "Tabarruj is when a woman puts a khimar on her head but does not tie it properly," so her necklaces, earings and neck, and all of that can be seen. If when a woman exposes her necklace and earing after puting khimar can be Tabarruj, then our own generation go beyond it, for verily our women nowadays are not even wearing the khimar, but do made exposing their bodies being part of civilization, just to arouse men, " innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'un" what a bad sophisticaation that only leads to Hell-fire. This has been the major source of evils nowadays that allure and captivate men toward sexual pervasion. The messenger of Allah (S.A.W) said, " If you see them, you curse them for they are a cursed". He also said in another tradition that ( I did not left behind me any Fitna (Trial) that is more severe upon men than women). O our lord! we seek your utmust refuge from women's trial.
               It is also part of the most important things that we must to take heed; applying the traditions (Hadiths) of prophet (S A W). I remember sect of people called " QUR'ANIYYUN" , who claim to have solely rely on Qur'an ignoring the hadith of Rasul (S.A.W). We  have to take an utmust heed over this because, Allah mentioned in different chapters of the Holy Qur'an that; ( Say 'O Muhammad': If you really love Allah, then follow me, Allah will love you and forgive you.(3:31)), ( And whatsoever the messenger gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it)59:7), and many more verses elsewhere in the Qur'an cammanding to be obedient to the Messenger for whatsoever he enjoins. The  Messengers are the only, precious saints that are to be followed even blindly because, Allmighty has cleanses them. For instance, our dear chosen prophet Muhammad (S A W), on whose Allmighty Allah said; " He does not speak on his own lust". So Allah cleanses him from any selfish, prejudices, lies and evils.
         The irony of such people is that they said; ' We only rely on Qur'an because, it's that which Allmighty promises to guard. And we are not sure of the authenticity of Hadith's chains '. They forgot the fact that they perform prayers ( two units for subhi, four for zuhr, asri and Isha'i, and three for Magrib) which formats were not mentioned in the Qur'an, but rather prophet's traditions (Hadiths). Allah The All-encompassing had only commanded us to pray and it's the Messenger who show us how and when to pray. So also giving Zakat, Hajj e.t.c. Any tradition that is meant to be authentic, has beeen confirmed the chain right from the prophet (S.A.W). Generation upon generation worked tirelessly to ensure that the chain was strongly authentic, one can travell a thousand miles from a place to another part of the world just to confirm the authenticity of a single Hadith being linked to the prophet or not, and the preceeding generation will also keep it untill it reach our own generation. So was the work of our predecessors that we can find the  most authentic Books (Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Daawud, Nisa'i and Ibn Maaja) at our disposal.    
             My prayers is that Allah show us the truth and keep us on the path, and show us the wrong way and refuge us from following the track.
               I said this while beseeching Allah's forgiveness for you and myself from all our sins and shortcommings. Ask for Allah's forgiveness, He will surely forgive you, for He's Oft-forgiving and Most-merciful.